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Southern Gothic

Spirits of Sloss Furnaces

Southern Gothic

Southern Gothic Media LLC

True Crime, Documentary, Society & Culture, History

4.6836 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Southern Gothic: Live in Nashville is happening on October 17, 2024... be sure to get your tickets now!! Built in 1881, Sloss Furnaces was the first of many blast furnaces in Birmingham, Alabama to manufacture pig iron. The furnaces aided in catalyzing an Industrial Revolution in the postwar south. It was in Alabama, that the iron industry took off, providing the rest of the country with the material necessary to build everything from country bridges to the first skyscrapers. But this lucrative new economy came at a high cost to the men who toiled to keep the furnace fed. A majority of furnaces workers were formerly enslaved men, willing to take any work away from the fields they were once forced to labor in. With extreme and hazardous working conditions at the best of times, it is no surprise that accidents resulting in injury or death occurred Today, many believe that echoes of the tragedy experienced by past workers still reverberate through the tunnels and catwalks of this icon of American industry. Want to Listen to Southern Gothic Ad-Free? Patreon: Ad-Free Episodes, Premium Releases, Bonus Content & More  Southern Gothic Premium on Spotify Southern Gothic Premium on Apple Podcasts Into History: History Without Interruption Connect with Southern Gothic Media: Website: SouthernGothicMedia.com Merch Store: https://www.southerngothicmedia.com/merch Pinterest: @SouthernGothicMedia Facebook: @SouthernGothicMedia Instagram: @SouthernGothicMedia X: @SoGoPodcast Advertise on this podcast: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Southern Gothic is a podcast that explores the history behind some of the American South's darkest days, greatest mysteries, and most chilling ghost stories. The The Industrial Revolution reached the American South in the early 19th century.

1:38.3

Both the introduction of the cotton gin and the growth of the burgeoning railroad industry

1:43.3

provided a tremendous boost to the lucrative farming-based economy.

1:47.0

But after the Civil War concluded, this industry was unable to sustain itself without the exploitation of an enslaved labor force,

1:57.0

the true backbone of anabellum prosperity.

2:04.4

So a new South began to grow,

2:08.1

fueled by the modernization and mechanization the second wave of the Industrial Revolution provided.

2:13.2

And nowhere in America was this shift more apparent

2:15.9

than the upstart town of Birmingham, Alabama,

2:19.3

where investors flocked for the opportunity to take part in a brand new industry

2:25.3

based on the manufacturing sale of iron.

2:28.3

The And while this iron industry may have given the region, the economic boost needed to recover from the Civil War,

2:48.0

the human cost was high, leaving a legacy of tragedies, horrific accidents,

2:55.6

and severe exploitation of impoverished laborers, primarily of African descent.

3:01.6

Of course, some believe that echoes of this tragic past exist today at Birmingham's last remaining

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